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Thelonious Monk, who was a jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work both rooted in the stride-piano tradition of Willie (The Lion) Smith and Duke Ellington, yet in many ways he stood apart from the mainstream jazz repertory.

a) Thelonious Monk, who was a jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work both rootedb) Thelonious Monk, the jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work that was rooted bothc) Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, who produced a body of work rootedd) Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk produced a body of work that was rootede) Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk produced a body of work rooted both

Why is the usage of both wrong in A,C,E?I know the correct idiom is Both A and B or Both in A and in B ...

In B we have =>both in the stride-piano tradition of Willie (The Lion) Smith (A) and Duke Ellington (B) ---- isnt Both in the stride-piano tradition of Willie (The Lion) Smith and Both in the stride-piano tradition of Duke Ellington understood here ???

both rooted in the stride-piano tradition of Willie (The Lion) Smith (A) and Duke Ellington (B) --- do we need to type both in the stride-piano tradition of Willie (The Lion) Smith and both in the stride-piano tradition of Duke Ellington .... isnt that understood?

Also, why is the usage of 'who' wrong in C?

Thelonious Monk, who was a jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work both rooted in the stride-piano tradition of Willie (The Lion) Smith and Duke Ellington, yet in many ways he stood apart from the mainstream jazz repertory.

a) Thelonious Monk, who was a jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work both rootedb) Thelonious Monk, the jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work that was rooted bothc) Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, who produced a body of work rootedd) Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk produced a body of work that was rootede) Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk produced a body of work rooted both

The usage of "who" in choice C is wrong.

Take a run at this simplified example...

Tiger Woods, who is a famous golfer, endorses Nike, but he wears Reebok. [Correct]

Tiger Woods, who is a famous golfer that endorses Nike, but he wears Reebok. [Incorrect]

Why? --- The noun Tiger Woods does not have an accompanying verb. It is incomplete.

Choice C can be corrected as follows:

Thelonious Monk, who produced a body of work rooted in the stride-piano tradition of Willie (The Lion) Smith and Duke Ellington, was a traditional jazz pianist and composer, yet in many ways he stood apart from the mainstream jazz repertory.

Thelonious Monk, who was a jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work both rooted in the stride-piano tradition of Willie (The Lion) Smith and Duke Ellington, yet in many ways he stood apart from the mainstream jazz repertory.

a) Thelonious Monk, who was a jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work both rootedb) Thelonious Monk, the jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work that was rooted bothc) Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, who produced a body of work rootedd) Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk produced a body of work that was rootede) Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk produced a body of work rooted both

The idiom both..and is deceptively used here. All options except C and D use the word both incorrectly here. C is a fragment, not a complete sentence. Hence the right answer is D. _________________

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Thelonious Monk, who was a jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work both rooted in the stride-piano tradition of Willie (The Lion) Smith and Duke Ellington, yet in many ways he stood apart from the mainstream jazz repertory.

a) Thelonious Monk, who was a jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work both rootedb) Thelonious Monk, the jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work that was rooted bothc) Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, who produced a body of work rootedd) Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk produced a body of work that was rootede) Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk produced a body of work rooted both

Because we use idiom "both X and Y" too often, so when we see the idiom we will pick options having this idiom intuitively. GMAT, however, prefers standard idioms. In this question, "both X and Y" must be used precisely, otherwise it's going wrong.

Note: Both X and Y <== X and Y MUST be parallel in meaning and grammar.OG questions seem to be easy, but they have more sophisticated traps than we thought.

a) Thelonious Monk, who was a jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work both rootedWrong. Parallelism problem: bothrooted in the stride-piano tradition of Willie (The Lion) Smith and Duke Ellington,- "rooted" is verb, "Duke Ellington" is noun <-- cannot parallel.

b) Thelonious Monk, the jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work that was rooted bothWrong. Parallelism problem: rooted both in the stride-piano tradition of Willie (The Lion) Smith andDuke Ellington,- The stride-piano tradition AND Duke Ellington are not parallel.

c) Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, who produced a body of work rootedWrong. Modifier problem. The clause "who....." has a comma before it. Technically, the clause is NON-essential. It means we can omit the clause without any meaning change. But that's wrong. The clause is ESSENTIAL. We can't omit it.

d) Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk produced a body of work that was rootedCorrect. parallelism: rooted in the stride-piano tradition of X and Y.

e) Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk produced a body of work rooted bothWrong. Parallelism problem: rooted both in the stride-piano tradition of Willie (The Lion) Smith and Duke Ellington,- The stride-piano tradition AND Duke Ellington are not parallel.

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Can someone explain to me why the appositive "Jazz pianist and composer" in D is correct without a comma after it? Is it even an appositive? I quickly eliminated C-E because of this issue, but I realized in the end that D was the best answer.

Can someone explain to me why the appositive "Jazz pianist and composer" in D is correct without a comma after it? Is it even an appositive? I quickly eliminated C-E because of this issue, but I realized in the end that D was the best answer.

I guess The Chairperson and CEO Mr.X and Mr.X, the chairperson and CEO are the correct usage. The former doesn't require a comma while the latter does. _________________

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Thelonious Monk, who was a jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work both rooted in the stride-piano tradition of Willie (The Lion) Smith and Duke Ellington, yet in many ways he stood apart from the mainstream jazz repertory.

a) Thelonious Monk, who was a jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work both rootedb) Thelonious Monk, the jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work that was rooted bothc) Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, who produced a body of work rootedd) Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk produced a body of work that was rootede) Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk produced a body of work rooted both

Very nice question. Answer is D.

Eliminate all choices with the word both, because all of them are incorrect. There aren't two things being talked about here so we don't need 'both'.

Between C and D, notice that C doesn't have a verb at all. Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, who produced a body of work rooted in the stride-piano tradition of Willie (The Lion) Smith and Duke Ellington, yet in many ways he stood apart from the mainstream jazz repertory. Here, the phrase in bold is modifying Thelonious Monk and can be removed to check for the parent verb. If you remove it, we are left with: Thelonious Monk yet in many ways he stood apart from the mainstream jazz repertory.

D corrects this error by introducing 'produced' as the main verb thereby converting the modifying phrase into a part of the main clause. _________________